United States presidential election, 1912

The United States presidential election, 1912 was held on 5 November 1912. The election saw four parties run: the Democratic Party nominee was Woodrow Wilson, with Thomas R. Marshall as his running mate; the Republican Party nominee was William Howard Taft, with Nicholas M. Butler as his running mate; Theodore Roosevelt was the Bull Moose Party nominee, with Hiram Johnson as his running mate; the Socialist Party of America candidate was Eugene V. Debs, with Emil Seidel as his running mate. The Republican party incumbent Taft ran as a conservative, leading to Roosevelt and the progressive Republicans forming the "Bull Moose Party". Wilson had the support of William Jennings Bryan's populists, leading to Wilson sweeping the election with 435 electoral votes; Roosevelt won 88 votes, while Taft won just 8 votes. Roosevelt has been the only post-American Civil War third party candidate to finish better than third place in a presidential election.